NARRATIVE TENSES AND LINKERS

I_______________ my car for five years when I sold it.

• had

• had had

• had been having

I ___________________ anything like that before.

• had done

• have done

• had never done

I fell while I ______________home from work.

• was walking

• walked

• had been walking

It felt as if we ____________ each other for a long time.

• known

• had known

• knew

I ____________________money for a trip for moths.

• saved

• saving

• ´d been saving

We use time linkers to show that there is a long time between each event in a story

• true

• false

Linker that means "in the beginning"

• in no time

• at the start

• in the start

Linkers that mean "after a short time"

• after a while

• in no time

• at no time

• before long

This is a synonym of "before long"

• soon

• fast

• long time

Linkers that mean "some time later"

• before long

• matter of hours

• Eventually

• As time went on